Cosmetic surgery techniques, such as having a patient sit or stand while incision sites are marked so they blend into natural lines of the body, can improve the aesthetic result of thyroid surgery as well, researchers say.
A new study identifies a combination therapy that may sensitize human cancer cells to a promising treatment currently being used in clinical trials. The research, published in the July issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provides a pharmacological method for enhancing the potency and effectiveness of a tumor necrosis factor death receptor ligand against a variety of human cancers.
Milk thistle extract, an herbal remedy since the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans, is today one of the most popular herbal supplements, with U.S. retail sales of nearly nine million dollars.
Medications are not quite a magic pill to improve the sex lives of men with erectile problems, a Deakin University study has found.
Health plans seldom require screening for substance abuse and mental health in primary care even though it can improve detection, according to a new Brandeis University study published in the July issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Soft tissue sarcomas — rare tumors of the connective tissue — should be treated at the few centers which see most cases, in order to give patients the best chance of good outcomes, concludes an analysis of sarcoma management in Florida, published in the Annals of Surgery last month.
Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to do just that.
Biodesign Institute researcher Stephen Albert Johnston, Ph.D., has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to develop a preventive vaccine against breast cancer, the second leading cause of death in women.
Thousands of British Columbians have joined the Conversation on Health to date, making it one of the single largest public discussions on health in B.C. history, announced Health Minister George Abbott at the last public forum in Vancouver.
Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid — found in wax from olive skin — inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment.